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If you have not done grocery shopping with your children in a while, this may a good reason to start again
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If you have not done grocery shopping with your children in a while, this may a good reason to start again

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If you have not done grocery shopping with your children in a while, this may a good reason to start again

By Lay Ean Eng|2019-01-14T06:33:06+00:00January 14th, 2019|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Connect, Learn and have FUN grocery shopping with your children. I was grocery shopping with my son on the weekend and he mentioned that the pricing on some items on [...]

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Bring Out The Puzzle
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Bring Out The Puzzle

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Bring Out The Puzzle

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-05-14T05:55:02+00:00May 14th, 2018|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Let’s talk about the Jigsaw Puzzle – recently I took out a 1000 piece puzzle and started to assemble the pieces. I enjoyed it especially when I needed to relax [...]

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Five fun interactive activities that create connections during the school holidays
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Five fun interactive activities that create connections during the school holidays

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Five fun interactive activities that create connections during the school holidays

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-04-19T07:21:57+00:00April 19th, 2018|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

School Holidays… Just relax and breath… School holidays – the best time of the year! That's my experience. It is a great time to relax, lay around the house and [...]

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Maths for young children
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Maths for young children

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Maths for young children

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-04-02T05:10:36+00:00April 2nd, 2018|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

What is maths? According to Wikipedia, “ it is the study of quantity, structure, space and change”. Sounds complicate? Actually it is not! You see, maths is alive! It is being applied every [...]

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Gardening with kids – one perspective from a non-gardening enthusiast
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Gardening with kids – one perspective from a non-gardening enthusiast

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Gardening with kids – one perspective from a non-gardening enthusiast

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-03-12T07:26:20+00:00March 12th, 2018|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Personally, coming from an Asian family, my love for gardening is not that great. However, my brother and mother would not support this view as both of them love their [...]

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I want you to invite your children to your kitchen and here is why
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I want you to invite your children to your kitchen and here is why

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I want you to invite your children to your kitchen and here is why

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-22T15:05:35+00:00January 25th, 2018|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Source: Body and Soul section of The Advertiser newspaper, 21 Jan 2018 Enlarged article: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/tokpanjang/Images/kidsinkitchen.jpg My editor just sent me this article to highlight and enforce the messages I am sharing [...]

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Tips on how to guide and share your culture with your grandchildren from your kitchen!
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Tips on how to guide and share your culture with your grandchildren from your kitchen!

Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Culture and Traditions, Your Family

Tips on how to guide and share your culture with your grandchildren from your kitchen!

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:13:01+00:00November 20th, 2017|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Culture and Traditions, Your Family|

Guide and share your culture with your grandchildren from your kitchen! I was at a tea shop talking with the manager about various teas... and somehow our topic of conversation [...]

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Daun Kaduk Colouring In
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Daun Kaduk Colouring In

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Daun Kaduk Colouring In

By Lay Ean Eng|2017-11-16T12:09:59+00:00November 16th, 2017|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Daun Kaduk / Wild Betel Nut Leaf I am not writing a recipe today, just introducing a simple colouring page for the kids - introducing our Asian herbs. So today's colouring-in is [...]

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School Readiness for Pre-schoolers – Part 2
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School Readiness for Pre-schoolers – Part 2

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School Readiness for Pre-schoolers – Part 2

By Lay Ean Eng|2017-10-13T11:35:18+00:00October 13th, 2016|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Schooling is an important part of our lives. I am currently spending two weeks in Penang to visit my parents and relatives. It has been great to meet up with [...]

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School Readiness
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School Readiness

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School Readiness

By Lay Ean Eng|2017-10-13T12:15:27+00:00October 13th, 2016|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Social and emotional competency is crucial when determining school readiness. As a parent, education of our children is always on our minds – even when travelling. I am currently making [...]

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Involve your children in the kitchen, they love to help!

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:13:12+00:00August 17th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Involve your children; they love to help! With our busy daily commitments, our main focus would be to try to use the little time everyday we have with our children [...]

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Let’s Have Fun with Counting Lemons

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-08T11:48:26+00:00July 30th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Have a look at the image above, this is a photo of our lemon tree. I saw a few green lemons and thought let's make something out of these lemons. [...]

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Connect and Empower through FUN – name the fruits

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-08T11:49:15+00:00July 29th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

The best way for your child to learn is first through FUN, and, secondly, by applying what they know through everyday interactions. The third way is by presenting challenges so [...]

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Is your child too young for structured education?

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-23T16:54:26+00:00July 6th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Social and emotional competency is crucial when determining school readiness. As parents, our children’s education can be a very top priority in our planning. Perhaps it has been instilled in [...]

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How to connect and have fun when planning your grocery list?

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:13:26+00:00May 18th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Connections and bonding are about shared experiences Parents are busy; we often struggle to find enough time for our families, thus, how do you find the time to connect and [...]

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Connect and have Fun through Grocery Shopping

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:13:32+00:00May 18th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

It is the school holidays, so I am seeing many families in the shopping mall and grocery stores. I have seen stressed parents hurrying up the children while grabbing what [...]

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Five Fun Ways to Turn Fussy Eaters to Food Lovers

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:13:37+00:00May 14th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

How frustrating, upsetting and stressful can it be if your child won't eat or dislikes the food that you place on the table? Are you frustrated that all your thoughts [...]

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Connections through Cooking
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Connections through Cooking

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Connections through Cooking

By Lay Ean Eng|2019-01-16T09:24:58+00:00May 14th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Create connections with your children and building relationships with them is about interacting and communicating on every occasion and opportunity you have with them. I find that the easiest way [...]

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What can children learn from cooking?
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What can children learn from cooking?

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What can children learn from cooking?

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-05-14T06:08:17+00:00May 14th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Here are 10 Fantastic Reasons why children can benefit from cooking: 1. Self Confidence When children successfully cook a dish, they will gain great satisfaction and build self confidence. [...]

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Let’s Get your Hands Dirty and Make Learning Fun

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-08T11:50:57+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

A child's learning is enhanced through daily fun interactions with adults! Let's get your hands dirty and make learning fun, shall we? Can you remember how you were taught maths [...]

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The role of play and your child’s emotional well being

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:14:00+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Filling your child’s love cup with play Can you remember when you played peek-a-boo, cuddled and sung to your baby daily? However, as the children grow up, parents tend to [...]

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The role of play and child development

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-13T09:37:40+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

“Play is as old as the existence of mankind. Play things were discovered in the artifacts of ancient civilization”. Early Childhood News by Shelly Butler Children are born natural learners. [...]

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Why PLAY is important for children’s development?

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:14:09+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

We can say that PLAY is important for both adults and children. It helps to release stress, enhances creativity and encourages social interactions. Play teaches us many things. Play provides [...]

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Inspire your child with the love of learning through fun and not fear

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-08T11:51:47+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Make your shared memories with them fun and joyful Whether your child is heading off to school for the first time, or whether your have been through the schooling phase, [...]

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If a child can’t learn the way we teach

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-08T11:51:56+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

I am very inspired by the above quote! So today’s topic is about speaking the language of your children. As parents, we love our children – there is no doubt [...]

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Make one meal time a FAMILY time
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Make one meal time a FAMILY time

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Make one meal time a FAMILY time

By Lay Ean Eng|2019-01-16T11:29:01+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

I am an advocate of making one meal time a FAMILY time. Why? Because we always hear food preparation comes from love…and a family meal time means love and family [...]

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Connections and Bonding

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:14:33+00:00May 13th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

As you may know, I place a high value on creating connections with your children and building a fantastic relationship with them. Connecting with your family is the best thing [...]

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How to create connections through your child’s lunch box?

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:14:33+00:00May 9th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

I have written quite a few articles on how we can create connections with our children by interacting daily through fun activities. Connecting with your children is about interacting with [...]

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Three Benefits of Cooking at Home

By Lay Ean Eng|2015-10-01T10:11:42+00:00May 7th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Families and Food are important. I am writing this blog post while cruising along the highway towards Kyoto, Japan – this is a place where I am really looking forward [...]

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How to empower the love of learning in your children?

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-01-02T10:14:38+00:00February 23rd, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Make everyday interactions fun and teaching moments for them I talked about school readiness, and making sure that your children is ready before sending them off to structured schooling. If [...]

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Learning starts from Home

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-23T16:28:20+00:00February 23rd, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Life is full of learning. Children, whether young or at school, are born curious and resilient. Their brains are like sponges, soaking up as much information they can from every [...]

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Counting and Grocery Shopping

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-23T16:23:04+00:00February 23rd, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Since we were talking about grocery shopping this week, I thought it would be nice to do something fun with identifying and counting fruits. Preschoolers Give them the simple and [...]

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Why you should place high expectations on your children
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Why you should place high expectations on your children

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Why you should place high expectations on your children

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-02-06T10:34:51+00:00February 6th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Children are born resilient with high optimism. They do not understand fear, success or failure when they are young. If you see a baby learning to crawl or stand up, [...]

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I am still a believer in hand writing
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I am still a believer in hand writing

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I am still a believer in hand writing

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-02-06T10:30:03+00:00February 6th, 2015|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

With the technological world we are in right now, reading and writing has changed. I am one of the many that took advantage of the convenience of technology and I [...]

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Filling your child’s love cup with play
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Filling your child’s love cup with play

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Filling your child’s love cup with play

By Lay Ean Eng|2018-04-19T07:20:25+00:00April 19th, 2014|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!, Your Family|

Can you remember when you played peek-a-boo, cuddled and sung to your baby daily? However, as the children grow up, parents tend to do these play activities less and less. [...]

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Empower the love of learning through daily interactions

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-23T16:31:37+00:00February 23rd, 2014|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Empower the love of learning in your children through daily interactions One of the many reasons people migrate to a new country is to search for better lifestyles and education [...]

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What is the AIM of school examinations?

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-19T15:52:28+00:00June 19th, 2013|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

These two weeks are my children’s exam weeks in the Uni. We were discussing about the exams preparation experiences with my children. On top of that, my parents, both are [...]

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Banana

By Lay Ean Eng|2016-02-18T06:07:40+00:00February 18th, 2013|Learning Starts from HOME: Fun in the Kitchen with your Children!|

Name the Fruit above: What is the colour of the fruit? How many bananas are there? Print and colour: Fun with Maths: 1 bunny has 2 ears 2 bunnies have [...]

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